Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, Sep 19:
Adopting the dogma of Panthers Party over 100 women and youth joined Panthers Party in the presence of Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP, Mrs. Manju Singh General Secretary and other leaders at Party Headquarters today. Mr. Gagan Pratap Singh State Secretary, Mr. Rajiv Mahajan, Mr. K.K Sharma, Mr. Sanjeev Verma, Mr. Partap Singh, Mr. Anil Rakwal and Mr. Rashpaul Singh also welcomed the new entrants in the party fold during the occasion.
Welcoming the new entrants in the party fold, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh said that Central and Kashmir based parties including BJP, Congress, NC and PDP had marginalized entire Jammu province for the sake of power in the past 70 years.
“They had perpetuated discrimination to Dogras in all spheres to the extent where our pristine identity was facing severe crisis. Only Panthers Party has emerged as a lone force of the people in the present scenario whose wave was sweeping the entire Jammu region by storm. Panthers only can provide us succor and liberate our people from all kinds of miseries and hardships. We shall restore our pride and honour at all costs”, Harsh roared. While lauding the decision of the youth to join NPP, Mr. Singh asked the new entrants to propagate the Party’s agenda of “Statehood for Jammu” to the grass root level. Dubbing the BJP’s double standards on article 35-A and 370 as an act of treason, he said that its despicable acquiesce had further emboldened the militants and thousands of stone-pelters in the valley to carry out subversive activities to vitiate peace in the State. He lamented that the ruffians, vandals, hooligans and illiterates were glorified in Kashmir while the highly educated nationalist youth of Jammu region were discriminated, exploited, suppressed and quelled. “Teach unforgettable lesson to the BJP in the Municipal polls and next Assembly elections”, exhorted Harsh.
Coming down ferociously on the erstwhile sinister alliance and BJP in particular for suppressing the voice of women power, Mrs. Manju Singh wondered over the slogans of ‘Achey Din’ and ‘Beti bachao, Beti Padhao’ sold by the Saffron brigade with a big bang. She said that thousand of crores of rupees had been incurred only to woo the youth for votes as these ‘jumlas’ had failed to make an virtual impact on the ground. She flayed the unholy alliance for treating them like ‘disposables’ and putting their future in jeopardy.
“The memories of frequent lathi charge on underemployed educated women protesting for their legitimate rights under BJP’s rule were still fresh in our minds.
Besides, we will teach its leaders a befitting lesson for their failure in ordering CBI probe into Rasana murder case to provide justice to the girl victim in the next elections”, Manju said.
Lambasting BJP for its hypocrisy over the inflation, she divulged that the inflation rate had peaked all time high and broken all records in the last 4 years with none of its Ministers uttering a word over the soaring prices of the essential commodities and LPG cylinders in particular.
Prominent among those who joined Panthers Party included Asha Verma, Bachhan Dass, Surishta Devi, Priya Devi, Reena Rani, Madhu Kumari, Sudesh Rani, Rano Rani, Sunita Devi, Sushma Devi, Jyoti Devi, Vijay Kumari, Kamlesh Kumari, Rekha Rani, Nisha Kumari, Meenakshi Sharma, Sanjeev Verma, Rajesh Kumar, Golu Ram, Ajay Kumar, Rajesh Khajuria, Parshotam Sharma, Bachan, Deepak, Raj Kumar, Dalip Kumar, Sahil Angral, Kaka Saini, Rahul Bhagat, Anil Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Lalit Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Sudesh Kumar, Lovely Singh, Pawan Kumar besides others.
